It seems pretty clear that all of Huffman’s recent decisions are driven by Reddit’s hoped-for IPO. On one front is the ugly fact that Reddit’s valuation is sinking.
It seems pretty clear that all of Huffman’s recent decisions are driven by Reddit’s hoped-for IPO. On one front is the ugly fact that Reddit’s valuation is sinking.
Eh unless they made the ads indistinguishable from regular posts then 3rd party apps would just filter them out. I guess Reddit could get around that by disallowing it as part of their API TOS but then they would need to make sure the popular 3rd party apps don’t do it and also possibly sue them when they do.
It’s going to be fairly obvious fairly quickly if the big apps are nixing ads, no need to sue, just block access to the API for violation.
Ah that’s true, then really what is the problem? Do they want more analytics that they get from official clients? Or is Steve Huffman actually just an idiot?
Edit: Actually it seems like they do just want the tracking data from the app since they are now blocking people from using the website on mobile https://lemmy.world/post/57306